The Enforcer (Murder, Inc.) (The Enforcer)

All clear, Governor?

OK, Rico.

Come on out.

Let's go.

Check it.

There's nobody out there.

How do you know?

Flank him on the left.

If you get it, I'll get it.

Come on.

Yeah?

- They're here, Mr. Ferguson. - OK. Be with them in a minute.

How's our witness?

He's falling apart.

I hope he holds together until morning.

I'll put him on the stand

the first thing.

Send him in.

All right, Rico.

Listen, Ferguson, I've made up my mind.

I... I ain't gonna testify.

You got to get yourself a new boy.

Sit down.

Stop telling me to sit down.

"Take it easy, Rico." "Relax, Rico."

Well, it's my neck.

He tried once in the farm,

once in the jail, and once in the hotel.

He's going to get me.

Nobody's going to get you.

That's why we brought you here.

Sleep tonight over there on that cot.

Tomorrow morning, we'll take you down

in the elevator to the courtroom.

You don't even leave the building.

You get on the stand and tell us what you saw.

That's all you have to do.

Mendoza'll be there, won't he?

Uh-huh. Well...

he won't let me talk.

He'll find a way to kill me,

even if it's on the witness stand.

It's a courtroom, Rico, filled with police.

All I want you to do is identify him.

I won't do it.

You go on the witness stand

tomorrow morning, 10:00.

I won't talk!

All right, if you won't talk,

I'll send you to the chair.

But you don't want me in the chair!

You want Mendoza!

Please, Mr. Ferguson, don't make me take the stand.

Well, what I've got on you, Rico,

I could burn you a dozen times.

But I'm... I'm letting you squirm out,

because you're right.

I want Mendoza more than I want you,

and you're going to help me get him.

Do you think Mendoza would let me fry him?

You don't know him!

He'll kill me tonight with all your uniforms around.

He's locked up in a cell, 9 stories below.

He's got organization.

That's busted.

How do you know?

Maybe he stuck a guy in a cop's uniform!

Nah...

well, there's something on it's way to kill me.

I can feel it coming.

Maybe from... there.

Or there...

there, or there.

I got a feeling it's on its way.

He got away!

See, there's another.

I can hear, I can hear.

He's busted out!

See? The call to tell you.

Yes?

Oh, anytime tonight will do.

Oh, say, quillen, what's that siren?

Uh-huh.

It's the Mayor.

He's late for an appointment.

You're lying. It's Mendoza. He's busting loose.

I tell you he's locked up in his cell!

He got out! He's coming to kill me! He got out!

You want to see him?

All right, I'll show him to you.

Bring him along.

Here. See for yourself.

He's in there, huh?

You wanted to look, look.

I don't want to see him.

Here, take a look.

He's smiling at me.

Mendoza. Call him off.

I'm not going to the court. I swear I won't!

Tell him I'm not squealing.

Rico!

You're going to talk, do you hear me?

You're going to talk!

You're not blowing up this case!

It took 4 years to put him in that cell,

and when he walks out, he's going to the chair.

So, you're going to talk.

It's the only chance you've got to live.

I'm afraid.

He'll never die!

He'll die. He's got to die, and you're going to kill him!

I can't! Nobody can.

He ain't human.

Tomorrow morning at 10:00, you go on the stand.

Take him back upstairs.

Now what's eating you?

I don't know.

Take a look around outside.

Like a cemetery.

Sorry, captain.

There's the window... the one that's lit up.

Give me a cigarette.

And a light.

Now!

Rico!

I ain't going to be shot to pieces

like no pigeon.

I'm getting out of here!

How bad is it?

I'm all right, sir. It's only a flesh wound.

- Whitlow... - Yes, sir?

Where did those shots come from?

I think they came from the roof

of the hotel across the street.

Uh, take him to the hospital.

Get me central control.

- Hey, doc... - Yes?

Put this guy to sleep, will you?

OK.

Put him on the cot in my office.

Nelson speaking.

Block the exits to that hotel across the street.

Search every room. Send a squad up to check the rooftops.

300 rooms in that hotel. We haven't got a chance.

Oh, Whitlow...

Yo.

Stay with him.

Don't leave him for anything.

How is he?

Everything ok?

Yeah.

Got some more coffee?

You got a big day ahead of you.

You better go home and get some sleep.

Sleep?

Whoever was on that roof is still loose.

They won't try anything else.

They shot their bolt.

Got Mendoza locked in a cell,

an air-tight indictment for murder,

and an eye-witness to the crime.

It's what the law books call an open and shut case.

Nothing can happen.

Yet...

here, drink your coffee.

We want you in that court room tomorrow, too.

Where are you going?

I don't feel good.

OK. In here.

I'm right with you.

OK, Rico, that's enough air.

What, again?

Nelson!

He's out on the ledge below us, trying to make the fire escape.

You can't make it, Rico.

You can't make it! It's too far!

You're right. I can't do it.

I'm getting dizzy.

I'm coming back.

Take it easy, now, Rico.

Now, don't look down.

Keep your face to the wall.

Here.

Reach my hand.

Come on.

Take it easy, now.

A little more, now.

Wait a minute. Get a good grip, there.

Can we take him?

Yeah.

It's crazy.

We had it all sewed up.

It's crazy.

Heh.

We could protect him against everything but himself.

Send the boys back to their precincts.

Nelson.

Well, can you go to trial tomorrow?

No, sir.

My case is right there.